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Offline DiabloTX

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« on: November 11, 2006, 06:50:25 PM »
Secrets of the Dead
PBS Nov 11 07:00pm
Series/Documentary, 60 Mins.

"Dogfight Over Guadalcanal" Episode #601.
A re-creation of the dogfight between one American and one Japanese pilot who faced each other over the Pacific in the summer of 1942.


Original Airdate: November 8, 2006.

Did anyone else see this?  How was it?
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« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2006, 07:38:49 PM »
i got the impression that the japanese pilot was Saburo Sakai, but i missed it:mad: :mad: :mad: :cry :cry
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2006, 08:39:08 PM »
I happened to catch some of that.

Was incredible.  Fantastic film footage.

Was flying at the time, and unfort. didn't give it the undevided attention it deserved.
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2006, 08:57:27 PM »
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I happened to catch some of that....Was flying at the time


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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2006, 01:05:14 AM »
I watched it, It may be worth buying the DVD....

Was the same flight that Saki got shot thru the head by the dorsal gunner of a US dive bomber.....

He still made it home, with just a compass, while paralized and blind on one side.

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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2006, 01:07:55 AM »
anyone ever see the curb your enthusiasm episode with the jap kamakizee pilot??????  "sooo uhhh...What happened???  At the last second did he think...."hey, maybe this kamakizee business just isnt for me...i'm gonna return to base".....CHICKEN!

lmfao

great epidose

especially the banzaii wheel chair charge at the end
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« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2006, 01:23:13 AM »
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great epidose


Cav, put the bong down, step away from the recliner.

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« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2006, 03:01:55 AM »
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anyone ever see the curb your enthusiasm episode with the jap kamakizee pilot??????  "sooo uhhh...What happened???  At the last second did he think...."hey, maybe this kamakizee business just isnt for me...i'm gonna return to base".....CHICKEN!

lmfao

great epidose

especially the banzaii wheel chair charge at the end


I actually have a book written by an ex-kamikaze pilot.
His whole formantion went out on it's mission & came back to tell the tale...
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« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2006, 08:14:14 AM »
Was a great program.  They focused on this particular fight since it was well documented by both pilots and they wanted to see how accurate the pilot reports were, as it turns out both pilots were pretty accurate as to what happened and how.  The show reproduced the dogfight with computer animation with the narrator using the pilot statements as to what happened and why.  Then a retired U.S.A.F. crash investigator went to the crash site of the Wildcat on Guadalcanal to determine if the shoot down happened as stated by the IJN pilot.  Basically they concluded that dogfight happened just as the pilots reported.  All in all if the program is repeated it's worth the time to watch it.  The next episode is on Dr. Wallis (sp?) and the dam busters.  One other caveat is the fact that it is broadcast in HD (at least here in Houston).
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« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2006, 09:59:17 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2006, 10:13:19 AM »
Great link, thanks.

BTW, you guys ever notice that they always manage to dig up the same scene of three dive bombers dropping their bombs on Pearl Harbor? (4:36 in the video).  Ahhhh...ever notice those three diver bombers are Douglas SBDs?  This scene always makes it into these documentaries.  I read a letter written by a WWII SBD pilot to a documentary maker...he was livid and sick and tired of having his plane described as Japanese, specifically the Jap planes that bombed Pearl.  Doesn't appear his letter had much effect.
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« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2006, 12:10:11 PM »
Seen the Documentary as I was flying... had to turf to watch the entire thing.  It was great.

Called out to others in the arena that it was on.  Later I just wanted to fly Wildcats and Zekes.  :D

This is why I have a small TV next to my puter.  It paid off.

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« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2006, 12:35:42 PM »
That was a great show!  Did anyone see if they figured out why the wildcat's guns didn't fire when the american pilot (I forgot his name) was behind Saki?  I hope to watch it again.

Regards,

Malta
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« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2006, 02:11:13 PM »
Great show, but why, oh why, did they let that villager take those artifacts out of context without recording them?
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« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2006, 03:24:01 PM »
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That was a great show!  Did anyone see if they figured out why the wildcat's guns didn't fire when the american pilot (I forgot his name) was behind Saki?  I hope to watch it again.

Regards,

Malta


When the wildcat make a 6 O'clock low approach on the bombers one of the bombers gunners hit the feed tray for the guns on one wing, disabling the guns.  As far as the other wings guns they never did address the fact as to whether he'd run out of ammo or what.
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